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AT FIRST GLANCE, IT MAY SEEM ODD TO CONSIDER DISTINCTIONS BY GENDER WHEN IT COMES TO FINANCIAL PLANNING. AFTER ALL, ISN’T SAVING AND GENERATING FINANCIAL SECURITY A COMMON PURSUIT IRRESPECTIVE OF SEX? While tactics are of course the same, the general circumstances associated with women (as compared to men) necessitate a customized approach to financial planning. Below, we lay out …
They face a heightened retirement savings challenge. How critical is it for women to build retirement savings? At least as critical as it is for men, perhaps more so because of two factors. Women have a longer life expectancy than men. That fact alone underlines the need for comparatively greater retirement savings. One Aon Hewitt research study projects that a …
By default, single women have always taken responsibility for managing household wealth, but the latest in a series of ongoing studies into the attitudes and actions of women around financial topics found that an ever-increasing percentage of married women are taking charge of financial and retirement planning for their families. Prudential’s “Financial Experience & Behaviors Among Women 2014-2015” — which …
Whether nurturing the values of children, fulfilling charitable goals, or making investment decisions that affect their own as well as their beneficiaries’ financial security, women play a central role in establishing and preserving family wealth. Consider these statistics:1 Women now control more than half of the investment wealth in the United States. 48% of estates worth more than $5 …
